Category: Sports
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How the mighty have fallen!
The Badgers and Blaska are upset! As we noted a few thrilling episodes ago, before today’s tragic outcome in Portland OR, former Ohio State star Clark Kellogg on CBS picked High Point U, seeded #12, to upset our beloved Wisconsin Badger basketball team, the 5 seed in the NCAA tournament. And so they did this…
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For $50 and the board, Alex, what is High Point?
Not just a church on Madison’s west side, apparently. March Madness is taking Blaska’s tormented mind out of the Straits of Hormuz while still broadening our limited horizons. There’s even a league called the Horizon League! (UW-Green Bay and Milwaukee are in it.) It’s one of 31 guaranteed a berth in the 68-team NCAA basketball…
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Put the kid in the game
We want more Isaac! Seated front row before the flickering b&w Philco, the Head Groundskeeper whooped and hollered when UW Badger basketball coach Greg Gard’s kid drained that 3-pointer Wednesday. Guessing you could hear Madison cheering all the way to Rockford. The game was already well in hand; the Badgers were blowing out the Maryland…
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The good guys can win, after all!
Thanks, Hoosiers, we needed that! There is a spring in our step this frigid Wisconsin morning. An America aching to its soul wanted Indiana to win their game Monday night 01-19-26, needed the Hoosiers to be crowned the champions of college football, and they did it! The gods must not be angry, after all. All-American…
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Hope struck out
Are we doomed to disappointment? Couldn’t bear to watch more than the top of the first inning. Brewers second baseman Brice Turang worked a walk against the improbable Shohei Ohtani. The cheap seats at Stately Blaska Manor thought this was the Milwaukee team we were accustomed to seeing — the team that created basepath havoc…
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Madison hired a police monitor who is triggered by police
Police make him sick! How much longer will progressive Madison gummint put up with its dysfunctional, deadweight Independent Police Monitor and its self-aggrandizing, virtue-signaling Police Civilian Oversight Board? Police Monitor Robin Copley is resigning after three years of … of what? … of drawing a taxpayer-paid salary because xxx/xxx/their post-traumatic stress disorder has returned. It…